Residents claim the agency in charge of recovery has backtracked after verbally assuring people they would get help
Mullumbimby residents who are still stuck in limbo 18 months after their town was devastated by floods say a change to the state’s recovery program means few of them will qualify for support to retrofit or raise their homes.premier, Chris Minns, prepares to fly into Lismore on Tuesday to talk up his Labor government’s $100m investment into flood recovery, a sense of “hopelessness” has set in for residents in the neighbouring Byron shire.
Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup “With this criteria, almost no one in the shire qualifies for a raise or retrofit,” Maxwell said. She has been forced to move nine times since the floods. “It was awful and when I sent that message out to everybody, I just got all these messages back from people just saying, ‘I’ve just had my phone call. I get why you’re crying’,” she.Maxwell’s neighbour, Neville Newton, was rejected for support after paying out of pocket to have his house raised. Both he and his wife are in their 80s.
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